Ken and Melody Shipley are world traveling potters who live in Clarksville, TN. In the last several years, they have traveled to China, France, England, Italy and throughout the US, for exhibitions, residencies and workshops. Ken teaches ceramics at Austin Peay State University and has taken students to La Meridiana in Certaldo, Italy and London. He is currently organizing another study abroad trip for Austin Peay students in May of 2012, to go back to Italy. Melody just recently returned from a soda firing workshop taught by Ruthanne Tudball at La Meridiana International School of Ceramics in Certaldo, Italy. One of Melody's students from her Community School of the Arts adult class accompanied her to the workshop in Italy. Each year, Ken and Melody co-teach a beginning throwing class at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC.
Ken and Melody's newest venture is their new storefront, Trenton Clayworks and Gallery, where they offer ceramics classes, sell ceramics supplies and have a world class gallery of ceramic arts.
